Home Assistant Supervised Installation

In this video we show you how to do a Home Assistant Supervised Installation Personally I prefer to run this in a VM because you can take a snapshot prior to upgrades and rollback if things go thing wrong Also, if you run this on say a Raspberry Pi for instance and that stops working, you&home automatation will be out of service while you source a replacement computer and then restore Home Assistant With a VM though, you can run it on another hypervisor until you can replace the broken computer Although you can download and install Home Assistant as a pre-built VM, another option is to do a supervised installation This involves instaling Home Assistant onto a Debian OS which brings the extra benefit of being able take advantage of features in Linux such as USB over IP for instance Useful links: ============================= SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Donate through Paypal: Donate through Buy Me A Coffee: Become a monthly contributor on Patreon: Become a monthly contributor on YouTube: ============================== ============================== MEDIA LINKS: ============================== Assumptions: It is assumed that you already have a hypervisor to run this on, but Proxmox VE is recommended As even the FBI warn, security is something you need to take seriously with smart home devices While you can use a software firewall like UFW on a Debian computer, Proxmox VE also provides a firewall option The benefit of using the firewall in Proxmox VE is...